New Spring/Summer CPDs & Conferences at TCCR 2016

TCCR Conference - Being and Doing: From Theory to Technique

Start Date: Saturday 23 April 2016
This conference showcases the development of central couple psychoanalytic concepts by TCCR's leading couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists Mary Morgan, Andrew Balfour and Susanna Abse, examining the vital links between theory and practice in the consulting room.
Speakers: Mary Morgan, Andrew Balfour, Susanna Abse and Catriona Wrottesley (chair).
Fees:  £130
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In Search of a Soulmate: Seeking the Perfect Other

Start Date: Friday 6 May 2016
This workshop will explore how to work with individuals and couples who are engaged in an internal or external search for a soulmate and will examine the psychodynamics of preoccupation with an idealised other.
Trainer:  Jenny Riddell, Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Fees:  £118 (£108 if booked and paid by 25 March 2016)

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Fostering Intimacy: Integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Within a Psychodynamic Framework

Start Date: Friday 20 May 2016
This workshop explores what EFT, an attachment-based experiential humanistic and systemic model which offers a comprehensive theory of adult love, offers for the psychodynamic therapist. This workshop aims to show how therapists can successfully harness the best of both approaches in an integrated way to help couples connect.
Trainer: Gulya Diyarova & Marian O'Connor
Fees: £118 (£108 when booked and paid for before 8 April 2016)
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Effective Work with Fracturing Families Conference

Start Date: Friday 10 June 2016
This conference looks at the research and policy arena that underpins the Life Chances Strategy, announced by the Prime Minister. We will also focus on what practice changes can be made to help us all respond effectively when parental couple relationships are vulnerable or broken.
Chair: Honor Rhodes, OBE
Fee: £140 (£125 if booked and paid for by 29 April 2016)
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Sleeping With Your Laptop - Social Media, Attachment and the Sexual Relationship

Start Date: Friday 24 June 2016
This workshop will examine the effect of social media on couple relationships and particularly on sexual intimacy. It will also look at how attachment issues may mitigate or increase these effects.
Trainer: Marian O'Connor, Programme Leader of the MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy at The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships
Fees:  £118 (£108 if booked and paid by 13 May 2016)
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Mothertongue or Other tongue? The bilingual psychotherapist's use of language in the consulting room

Start Date: Saturday 2 July 2016
Little has been written about the role of language for the bilingual psychotherapist, particularly about the impact on internal processes. Recent analytic interest and research into linguistic dilemmas in the consulting room are currently opening up new fields of thought.
Trainers: Nora Tsatsas, M.A. Bilingual Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapist and Psychosexual Therapist and Marianne de Groot, Bsc., Mphil. Bilingual Relationship and Psychosexual Therapist.
Fee: £118 (£108 if booked and paid for by 20 May 2016)
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